The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-23
The Close of Delegate Gaines
Able Argument
AGAINST THE TUCKER INFAMY.
''Let Ne Plead with You, Let Me Be,
ssech You, Not to Consign My Peo-
pie to Such Inhuman Slavery"
Continued from Yesterday. |

| MT. CpedkeI, II Is not the morals Oh LD'
Mormon people or the communicating
influence thereof upon the public thai
is, at the bottom of the persecution VIZ
have to endure. 1t is preposterous non
Sense to talk about the Mormon blot
upon the civilization of our age. If you
were 10 undertake to eradicate blots
upon your civilization you would have
your hands full. | would respectfully
refer gentlemen who are curious tC
know something of the morality which
the boosted civilization Of the nineteenth
century has developed in localities fal
removed from Utah, and where intellec
tuallight blszes most powerfully, to Won
Oettingen's Moralstatistik, published in
1882. The FOrtniqhdy Review, speak
ing of this book recently said:
1T exhibits truly the most dismal
OF sciences. since it consists of little else
than the exhibition of complete record
of crime. Perhaps the most dlsheart-
ening pages of Won Oettingen's array of
facts are those which relate to the
crimes of great cities and densely popu-
lous areas. Won Oettingen' tabulations
seem to include all European countries
except Spain, Portugal, and Turkey. II
a map of Europe were before US shaded
in proportion to the returns of known
Evice and crime the darkest shadows
| would rest where the boast of intellec-
| tual light is greatest-in Saxony, the
shrine of modern culture, the f@tress of
| free thong ht. j."
There is but scant probability of "the
canker of Mormon polygamy," as it is
termed, endan gering the morals of the
word, of endangering your civilization.
in the presence of the widespread and
n Of
Mr.. Speaker, the Mormon Church. es-
this onslaught upon the Mormon peo-
pie. 1t Is a religious problem you are
endeavoring to deal with IN this as well
as in all other legislation that has been
attempted or proposed. 1t is our eccle-
siastical and not our moral polity that
is aimed at-that is sought to be over
thrown. The men who are here from
Utah, clamoring for the disfranchise-
ment of the Mormon people who insist
that every Office within that Territory
shall be vacated and filed by appoin-
tees, that even our selectmen, who make
the assessments of property, and the
tax-collectors shall give way to non
Mormons, are not afraid of the contain
ination of their own or their families
morals. They know, as all the world
knows, that a purer, more orderly, up
right, God-fearing, and God.serving
community does not exist upon earth
than the exclusively Mormon settle
ments of Utah. It is simply because
the minority can not, under edmocrat-
ic American form of local government,
rule the majority that these men are
here clamorIng for our disfranchise-
ment.
There is one question, Mr.. Speaker.
that is pressing swiftly and strongly
upon the people of this country; there
is one problem that demands the seri-
GUS attention of all who are interested
in the future welfare of the nation, and
even of society itself. That question,
that problem, the Mormons have solved
for themselves: We are not perplexed
about the relations between capital and
labor; we are not threatened with the
dangers of dissatisfied proletariat; we
have no dread of communism; our
slumbers are not disturbed by fears of
Anarchists. The Perpetual Emigratiug
Fund Company you propose 90 wipe
out, cut up root and branch, because it |
imports poor and ignorant foreigners,
who you claim become the bond slaves
of the Mormon hierarchy. And yet 80 |
per cent. of all the Mormon families in
Utah own their own houses. But S37
per cent. of men, women, and children
can not read. The official statistics are
a sufficient answer to this nightmare.
The hard times recently experienced
the world over have been experienced in
Utah. But where Mormon laborers
have been employed, either in or out
side the Territory, there have been Nc
strikes. And, what is still more worthy
your attention. there is not to-day In an
exclusively Mormon community an
almshouse or the need of one.
1t is said the countr demands the
suppression of polygamy. Admit for
arguments sake that it does. The coun-
try does not demand that the rights of
shall be denied the people of
Utah, nor that their church shall be dis.
incorporated and the church property
squandered.
1t will be claimed that this legislation
is recommended by the Utah Commits
sion. Do those who make this claim
fully comprehend how great personal
interest the members of that commission
nave in the success of this measure?
This bill perpetuetes them in positions
where they draw S. 900 year each from
the public treasury. where they are al
AOnON oOAlO 4CAuol hdUlS eADen-
SEES, and where they have practically |
nothing to do. Is it a matter for aston
ishment that they should recommend |
the passage of this bill? So
1t is also claimed that this legislation |
is recommended by the Governor of |
Utah. Is he not al interested party
slso2 If this bill becomes a law it will |
give him the direct and indirect appoint |
ment of two thousand officers who here
tofore have been chosen by the people.
A patronage so great might satisfy the |
ambition OF one more aspiring even than |
the Governor of Utah. THIS modest |
gentleman. while admitting that he sees
no probability of any outbreak in Utah,
has had the supreme assurance to urge
that strong, well disciplined, and ef-
dGient' force of United States soldiers
be held near Salt Lake TO assist the civil |
authorities. Is Congress prepared TO
follow the bent of these place seekers in
their Unsuitable cravings? Recommen
dations from sources in which personal
are so manifest would.
carry eternal condemnation
on the face of them.
If this bill were only what il processes
to be if Its purpose we're thesuppression
Of mol VpamV aione how can ali this holm |